Image by Andreas Eldh, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/eldh/)
Over on AskMetaFilter, nushustu posted an interesting question for our technological age: with much of its staff let go, how is X (nee Twitter) still running? The many answers are an illuminating look at running social media on a large scale.
just putting the meta in metaphorical
In Ask Metafilter, Twitter account utility or helpful tool to keep following users? Related conversation on the Blue: Subterranean birdsite blues.
Twitter icon by Jurgen Appelo (cc by)
... what ends up happening is you need more and more people to manage smaller and smaller things ... Wow! Very interesting insider comment from wooh on the scale challenges and other issues that have steered the engineering side of Twitter.
comic by Sarah Lesson, via chaospet
In Ask Metafilter, Your favorite funny Twitter accounts?
Statue of Liberty by Stina Stockholm (cc by-nc-nd)
Halloween Jack on the Statue, amid many other unsettling thread remarks (brrrr!) in signsofrain's post reminiscing about how we worshipped the husk.
Enjoy! Or dip in as a palate cleanser between y2karl's Gorgo 2049 video post (SCP alert!) and GenjiandProust's “I Wear No Mask” and Other Horrors newest weird audio dramas post.
Refreshable braille display by Sebastien.delorme - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 from wikimedia.org
Hippybear posted a very helpful link on how to write image descriptions in Twitter for people with vision impairment or low vision!
Rusty iron cogs in Santurtzi harbour, Santurtzi, Spain by John Briody Photography (cc by)
I spent the first nine years of my legal career working with veterans who were seeking VA disability benefits ... bile and syntax offers an insider view of the shocking state of the US Veterans Administration in the US Army tweets “How has serving impacted you? thread.
18th century school workbook doodle via The Museum of English Rural Life
I think what I like best is that it reminds me of my own school maths book, except my handwriting was rubbish and the doodles were of my scruffy Jack Russell rather than sporty rabbit chasing dogs.
Richard Beale was my great great great grandfather ... It's been very weird to see my ancestor's doodles going viral: Mefi's own intensitymultiply on encountering the MERL's popular twitter thread about an 18th century teen's mathematics workbook
Penguin dramaz at NANZ
Burny is the vigilante anti-hero penguin we didn't know we needed. – Faint of Butt
@jonnywaistcoat chronicles the Naughty and Good Penguins at the National Aquarium of New Zealand
Dog Intelligence by alicejamieson (cc by-nc-nd)
Learning a thing or two, recently in Ask:
How can I improve my vocabulary?
What are some self-help, therapy-ish books that have really helped you?
Where do I learn how to give an injection?
I need to improve my skills at making mobile apps (and websites) usable and beautiful.
And in Mefi blue, Start Your Art Journey Today: a series of drawing lessons for free for all beginners and anyone looking to refresh their artistic skills
Chompsky in the hole
Great answer by barchan to popcassady's question, "Found this footprint shaped hole in a rock at the beach. Is it a dinosaur footprint?"
In other news of holes and dinosaurs, Dinosaur Comics author Ryan North turns to Twitter when he and dog Chompsky get trapped in a hole. Amusing thread ensues.
Truly, the glue that's holding civilization together, however tenuously by Saucy Salad (cc by)
The Twitter universe spent the weekend in a tizzy over the use of semicolons in javascript. If you hadn't heard or none of it makes much sense, this post by Deathalicious is a good backgrounder on the issues at play.
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